Providing a comprehensive guide to empirical legal research, this Oxford Handbook examines one of the central developments in modern legal scholarship. Chapters trace the development of the field, its methodology, and its contribution to understanding every aspect of the modern legal world - from policing to finance, employment to the environment.

• Introduction


• Part I: Surveying Empirical Literature


• 1: Martin Innes: Policing


• 2: Wesley Skogan: Crime and Criminals


• 3: Jacqueline Hodgson and Andrew Roberts: Criminal Process and Prosecution


• 4: Antony Bottoms and Andrew von Hirsch: The Crime-Preventive Impact of Penal Sanctions


• 5: Sally Wheeler: Contracts and Corporations


• 6: Julia Black: Financial Markets


• 7: Steve Meili: Consumer Protection


• 8: Elizabeth Warren and Robert Lawless: Bankruptcy and Insolvency


• 9: Linda Haller: Regulating the Professions


• 10: Paul Fenn and Neil Rickman: Personal Injury Litigation


• 11: Herbert Kritzer: Claiming Behaviour as Legal Mobilization


• 12: Mavis Maclean: Families


• 13: Simon Deakin: Labour and Employment Laws


• 14: David Cowan: Housing and Property


• 15: Linda Camp-Keith: Human Rights Instruments


• 16: David Law: Constitutions


• 17: Michael Adler: Social Security and Social Welfare


• 18: Bridget Hutter: Occupational Safety and Health


• 19: Cary Coglianese and Catherine Courcy: The Environment


• 20: Simon Halliday and Colin Scott: Administrative Justice


• 21: Roderick Macdonald: Access to Civil Justice


• 22: Peter Russell: Judicial Recruitment, Training, and Careers


• 23: Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack: Trial Courts and Adjudication


• 24: David Robertson: Appellate Courts


• 25: Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Alternative Dispute Resolution


• 26: Neil Vidmar: Lay Decision-Makers in the Legal Process


• 27: Gary Edmond and David Hamer: Evidence Law


• 28: Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Bryant Garth: Civil Procedure and Courts


• 29: Chrisopher Hodges: Collective Actions


• 30: Catalina Smulovitz: Law and Courts on Development and Democratization


• 31: Gregory Shaffer and Tom Ginsburg: How Does International Law Work?


• 32: Richard Moorhead: Lawyers and Other Legal Service Providers


• 33: Margaret Davies: Legal Pluralism


• 34: James Gibson: Public Images and Understandings of Court


• 35: Fiona Cownie: Legal Education and the Legal Academy


• Part II: Doing and Using Empirical Legal Research


• 36: Herbert Kritzer: The (Nearly) Forgotten Early Empirical Legal Research


• 37: Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin: Quantitative Approaches to Empirical Legal Research


• 38: Lisa Webley: Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Legal Research


• 39: Laura Beth Nielsen: The Need for Multi-Method Approaches in Empirical Legal Research


• 40: Denis Galligan: Legal Theory and Empirical Research


• 41: Martin Partington: Empirical Legal Research and Policymaking


• 42: Antony Bradney: The Place of Empirical Legal Research in the Law School Curriculum


• 43: Christine Harrington and Sally Merry: Empirical Legal Training in the US Academy

Edited by Peter Cane, Professor of Law, Australian National University, and Herbert Kritzer, Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota